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The Blue Trail and Mirrors No.3
The Blue Trail
(O Ultimo Azul)
(Country: Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Chile; Year: 2025; Director: Gabriel Mascaro; Writer: Tibério Azul, Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, Gabriel Mascaro; Stars: Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarras, Adanilo)
To maximise economic productivity, the government orders the elderly to relocate to distant housing colonies. Tereza, 77, refuses – and instead embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(Wo Hu Cang Lon)
(Country: US, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan; Year: 2000; Director: Ang Lee; Writer: James Schamus, Wang Hui Ling, Tsai Kuo-Jung; Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh,
Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Lung
Sihung, Cheng Pei-Pei)
Mystical epic sees warriors go on
quest to recover a stolen sword.
Father Mother Sister Brother
(Country: US, Ireland, France; Year: 2025; Director: Jim Jarmusch; Writer: Jim Jarmusch; Stars: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Françoise Lebrun)
Three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents) and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country.
The Fence
(Le Cri des Gardes)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Claire Denis, Suzanne Lindon, Andrew Litvack; Stars: Tom Blyth, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Isaach De Bankolé)
As supervisor Horn is welcoming his partner Léone into the hut he shares with engineer Cal, a man called Alboury appears outside. He is determined to stay there until they return the body of his brother to him, who was killed on the site.
Grand Prix
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: John Frankenheimer)
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate’s wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant.
Two Prosecutors and Wild At Heart
Hamnet
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Chloé Zhao; Writer: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell; Stars: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe)
William and Agnes Shakespeare struggle to come to terms with the loss of their son.
A House With Two Dogs
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Matías Ferreyra)
As Argentina experiences an unprecedented economic crisis, in the early 2000s, young Manuel’s parents are unable to pay rent and move, along with him and his two younger brothers, into their grandmother Tati’s house. There, Manuel, who seems to differ from the other children, will reconnect with his eccentric grandmother.
Joan Of Arc
(Country: Iceland, Denmark, France; Year: 2025; Director: Hlynur Pálmason)
The film follows three children who, on an isolated Icelandic coast, make a human figure out of mud and wood, a knight, or perhaps all things considered, Joan of Arc, unleashing a barrage of arrows from their bows upon her, as time passes, seasons change, and their game takes on an almost existential quality.
Love Me Tender
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Anna Cazenave Cambet; Writer: Anna Cazenave Cambet; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Antoine Reinartz, Monia Chokri, Viggo Ferreira-Redier, Féodor Atkine, Park Ji-min, Manuel Vallade, Aurélia Petit, Salif Cissé)
One late summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes custody of her son. Clémence must fight to remain a mother, a woman and a free woman.
The Love That Remains
(Country: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France; Year: 2025; Director: Hlynur Pálmason; Writer: Hlynur Pálmason; Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Sverrir Gudnason, Anders Mossling, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir, Saga Garðarsdóttir, Halldór Laxness Halldórsson, Grímur Hlynsson, Þorgils Hlynsson, Kristinn Guðmundsson)
A year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.
Palestine 36 and Hamnet
Made In EU
(Country: Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic; Year: 2025; Director: Stephan Komandarev)
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a woman working at a clothing factory in a provincial Bulgarian town receives a positive diagnosis. Blamed by her employers and local society for her “irresponsible actions that put her fellow colleagues and townspeople at risk” (after being the first officially documented case of a patient with Covid-19), she is stigmatized.
The Mastermind
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Kelly Reichardt; Stars: Josh O'Connor, Gaby Hoffmann, John Magaro, Alana Haim, Bill Camp, Hope Davis, Rhenzy Feliz, Matthew Maher, Cole Doman, Margot Anderson-Song, Eli Gelb, Juan Carlos Hernández, Jean Zarzour, Ryan Homchick, Wilson Conkwright)
In a quiet corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plots his first major heist. But when things go south, his life is turned upside down.
Maya, Give Me a Title
(Maya, donne-moi un titre)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Michel Gondry; Stars: Maya Gondry, Miriam Matejovsky, Steven Matejovsky, Anita Matejovsky, Pierre Niney)
Stop-motion animation.
Mirrors No.3
(Miroirs No.3)
(Year: 2025; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold; Stars: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs, Victoire Laly)
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...
Palestine 36
(Country: France, Palestinian Occupied Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UK, Denmark, Jordan, Norway, US; Year: 2025; Director: Annemarie Jacir; Writer: Annemarie Jacir; Stars: Jeremy Irons, Robert Aramayo, Liam Cunningham, Billy Howle, Christopher Villiers, Hiam Abbass, Sam Hoare, Yasmine Al Massri, Nicholas Moss, Mo'min Swaitat)
In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.
The Mastermind and The Thing With Feathers
A Poet
(Una Poeta)
(Country: Colombia, Germany, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Simón Mesa Soto; Writer: Simón Mesa Soto; Stars: Guillermo Cardona, Rebeca Andrade, Ubeimar Rios, Humberto Restrepo, Margarita Soto, Allison Correa)
Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days, but dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.
Re-Creation
(Country: Ireland, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: David Merriman, Jim Sheridan; Writer: Jim Sheridan, David Merriman; Stars: Aidan Gillen, Colm Meaney, Vicky Krieps, Jim Sheridan, John Connors, Barry John Kinsella, Brendan Conroy, Dagmar Döring, Tristan Heanue, Zahara Moufid, Maja Juric, Janet Grene, Clodagh Amira Sheridan, Steve Hartland, Michael Farrell)
Inspired by the real unsolved murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier, imagines a jury’s deliberations if the main suspect had been tried in Ireland, where Toscan du Plantier was killed.
Romería
(Country: Spain, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Tristán Ulloa, José Ángel Egido, Sara Casasnovas, Miryam Gallego, Janet Novás, Mitch Martín, Celine Tyll, Mitch Robles, Llúcia Garcia, Sergio Quintana, David Saraiva)
Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met.
Silent Friend
(Country: Greece, France, Hungary; Year: 2025; Director: Ildikó Enyedi; Writer: Ildikó Enyedi, Tina Kaiser; Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Léa Seydoux, Sylvester Groth, Yun Huang)
Tales told from the perspective of a lonely old tree standing in the middle of a botanical garden.
The Tasters
(Le Assaggiatrici)
(Country: Italy, Belgium, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: Silvio Soldini; Writer: Rosella Postorino, Doriana Leondeff, Silvio Soldini; Stars: Elisa Schlott, Max Riemelt, Alma Hasun, Emma Falck, Olga Van Luckwald, Boris Aljinovic)
Seven women are forced to taste Hitler's food to check for poison. As they spend time together, their relationships evolve between loyalty and betrayal.
Romería and Love Me Tender
The Thing With Feathers
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Dylan Southern; Writer: Dylan Southern; Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, David Thewlis, Sam Spruell, Jessie Cave, Leo Bill, Vinette Robinson, Tim Plester, Adam Basil, Garry Cooper, Pierre Bergman, Eric Lampaert, Claire Cartwright, Lesley Molony, Joakim Skarli, Max Porter)
Struggling to process the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, a young father loses his hold on reality as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
Two Prosecutors
(Country: France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania; Year: 2025; Director: Sergey Loznitsa; Writer: Sergey Loznitsa; Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy, Andris Keišs)
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
Whitetail
(Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Nanouk Leopold; Writer: Nanouk Leopold; Stars: Natasha O'Keeffe, Andrew Bennett, Aaron McCusker, Rory Nolan, Simone Kirby, Aidan O'Hare)
The past catches up with a woman.
Wild At Heart
(Country: US; Year: 1990; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch, based on the novel by Barry Gifford; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, J E Freeman, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Zabriskie, Crispin Glover, Calvin Lockhart)
Sailor and Lula go on the run, after Lula's mum bids to kill her daughter's beau.
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